Wine and spirits distributors are the vital link bringing an ever-expanding variety of brands from around the world to the places consumers buy them. As local, family-owned businesses, distributors are essential members of the economy.
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WSWA’s SipSource™ Forecast: 2025 Likely to be a 3rd Consecutive Negative Year for Core Spirits
SipSource’s Forecast Model Predicted First Half of 2024 with Nearly 90% Accuracy for All Core Spirits
Oct 23, 2024
Dos Hombres Co-Founders to Address the Largest U.S. Convention for the Wine and Spirits Industry
Oct 16, 2024
30 Local Business Leaders Emphasize Urgency of Extending Key Tax Deductions to Support Small and Family-Owned Businesses
Featured Issues
Explore IssuesAs Congress seeks to make the United States Postal Service (USPS) solvent, it is imperative that individual state laws concerning the direct to consumer shipping of wine, beer and spirits are respected.
WSWA believes the time has come for Congress to comprehensively legalize and regulate adult-use cannabis at the federal level.
Enforcement efforts around the country have revealed that states grapple with the harmful impacts of non-compliance in the direct-to-consumer alcohol shipping market. While many shippers respect state laws, there are bad actors that ship alcohol illegally to consumers by taking advantage of loopholes to evade compliance, which harms law-abiding businesses, undercuts state authority, and ultimately has negative impacts on the entire marketplace and consumers.